My oldest daughter, says she is a quilter, not a piecer, she enjoys hand quilting, but she does not enjoy piecing a quilt. So she says that she is a quitter and not a piecer. She has never machine quilted though. My mother taught her to hand quilt, so she thinks that is the only way to quilt. I too was a dead set hand quilter until I went to a Ricky Timms seminar. I am teaching myself to free motion quilt (with the help of U-tube), and I am having a ball. My hand quilting is getting less and less all the time, as I am enjoying free motion immensely.